Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,014, Jacob Goodwin, Mass.

SERVICE.
Mass.
Goodwin, Jacob
NUMBER
8.37.014
CONTENTS
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2 Jacob Goodwin Map line Col Sprout 1702 - war
17 Mar. 1702
4 June 1810.
transferred to another envelope
Admitted
Reading Middlesex Co. Mass.

4243 Case of Jacob Goodwin. ✓
Pliny Moore
Judge
Clinton Co. N. Yk.
Rec. July 6. 1819.
Samuel Blagg Esq.
State Street Not. Pub.
Jeremiah Lufkin
the Clerk - Hous.
Further evidence of service wanting - the last that will be received is the deposition of the witnesses whose credibility must be certified by the Judge
16 July 1819.
30. Sept 1819. Further evid. certified & return to Massachusetts, requested

State of New York } County of Clinton } ss Jacob Goodwin of Mooers in said County of twenty five years of age Being duly sworn Deposith & saith that he now is a resident of the Town of Mooers that for many years past his place of residence has been with his Son in the Town of Bradford in Vermont - That in the commencement of the Revolutionary war he went as a volunteer to Boston Two months in Capt Emerys Company - That about the beginning of June in the year 1782 he enlisted as a private soldier in Capt Walhens Company Col. Sprouts Regiment of the Massachusetts line called the Second Regiment in which Regiment he served at different posts in the Highlands on the Hudsons River & at Philadelphia until the time that his services for during the war were prolonged when he was transferred to the Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. Jackson in which he served until discharged in January in the year 1834 at West Point - That by reason of reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support - That he does not know of any person in this part of the country who he could address as a Witness to prove his services - That no pension has ever been allowed him & that he hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension by any law of the United States other than the law passed the 18 th of March last on which he now applies - That he had an ample & honorable discharge from the service which about five years ago he delivered to James Bangs of Derby who informed land was to be obtained for the old soldiers & it has not since been in his possession.
Jacob Goodwin
Sworn before me the 11 th day of June 1818
Pliny Moore First Judge of Clinton Common Pleas
State of New York } County of Clinton } ss Robert Parker of Mooers being duly sworn Deposith & saith that he is personally acquainted with Jacob Goodwin the above applicant that he is his son in law & that the said Goodwin with his aged wife resides at present at his the deponents house destitute of many of the comforts of life & of the means of procuring them & his wife apparently in the consumption unable to leave her bed & he believes never can recover - that he is ignorant of his military services having accrued previous to their acquaintance
Robert Parker
Sworn the 11 th day of June 1818 before me - P. Moore First Judge of C. & P.
State of New York } County of Clinton } I certify that it satisfactorily appears to me that Jacob Goodwin the above Applicant performed the services as set forth in his Affidavit in the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy and that by reason of reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support & that he ever has been & now is a Resident Citizen of the United States since the Declaration of Independence
Pliny Moore First Judge of Clinton Common Pleas

State of New York Clinton County ss. I Charles Platt Clerk of said County do Certify that Pliny Moore Esquire before whom the above affidavit was taken is the first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County duly authorized according to law in testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County & set my hand the 23 rd day of April 1818 Cha s Platt Clerk of Clinton County

State of Massachusetts
Jacob Goodwin a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Reading in the County of Middlesex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the 13th of July A.D. 1782 or about that time & according to my best recollection as early as June of that year, I then residing at Spencer in the said State, I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of December in the year 1783 or January A.D. 1784 .
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Capt. Walker & the regiment of Col. Sprout in the Massachusetts line of the army , till the month of June 1783 when I was transferred to the regiment of Col. Jackson in the same line and that I left the service on December as aforesaid, being then honorably discharged as in January 1784 all as stated in my annexed declaration made 11th June 1848 before Judge Moore .
And that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of seventy four years, having returned to reside in my native State when I expect to pass the remainder of my days, my  application  made the 11th of June 1848 & Phoebe Moore Esq. first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Clinton in the State of New York , having been returned from the war department for further evidence of service, this evidence now established with this additional declaration pray that the same may be transmitted to the war office, for allowance & return to this State.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Jacob Goodwin
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Jacob Goodwin and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to supplementary declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true, that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life & poverty, he still stands in need of assistance from his country for support.
Wm Wetmore

Jacob Goodwin Map line Col Sprout 1702 - war
17 Mo. 1702
4 June 1810.
Admitted
Reading Middlesex Co. Mass.

We Nathaniel Eastman, & Samuel Goodwin, of Concord in the County of Rockingham & State of New-Hampshire, declare upon oath that we are & have for a long time been acquainted with Jacob Goodwin, late of said Concord & well remem- ber that he entered the Revolutionary Army in Colonel Sprague's Regiment in July or August 1782, & continued to serve in said Revolutionary War until some time in the month of December 1783, or January 1784, as we have every reason to believe, personally knowing the time he entered, & the time when he left the service.
Nath l Eastman
Samuel his Goodwin mark
In presence of Joseph Laws
Jacob Goodwin
State of New-Hampshire } Concord September 17 th 1819 Rockingham ss }
Be it known that on this seventeenth day of September A.D. 1819 before me Joseph Laws, Notary Public in & for said State personally appeared Nathaniel Eastman & Samuel Goodwin, & made solemn oath that the declaration by them subscribed is just & true.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal at Concord in the County & State aforesaid on the day aforesaid.
Joseph Laws, Notary Public
sworn to that the above deponents are credible witnesses —
Joseph Laws, Notary Public,

This may certify that I find on the Book of records of the 2 d Mass s Reg t commanded by Col. Eben Sprout the name of Jacob Goodwin in the 2 d company of said Reg t and that he enlisted in Boston July 13 1702. For three years. That he resided in Ipswich in the County of Essex in said State of Mass s and was then 39 years Old. — Having no date when he was discharged, But he says he went on to Philadelphia in the 2 d Mass s Reg t in the summer of 1703. The subscriber went to Philadelphia in the 2 d Mass s Reg t at the time (Goodwin mentions) and returned with the Reg t in Oct r 1703. (To West Point.) Where we remained till, discharged, at the close of the year, when the war ended.
Adam Bailey late a Capt in the 2 d Mass s Reg t —
U.S. Marine Hospital Charlestown Mass s . Sept. 10 th 1819. —
Suffolk. Boston Sept r 30 th - 1819.
Personally appeared the above named Adam Bailey whom I certify to be in my opinion a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed — before me — Stephen Hopper for Clerk —
I also certify that I very well know the above named Adam Bailey, that he has the care & charge of the U States Marine Hospital at Charlestown, Massachusetts, & is a disinterested & credible witness. — Boston Sept r 30 1819
W m Wetmore, the Judge named in the annexed papers

I Jacob Goodwin Jun. of Reading in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I have seen and read Jacob Goodwin's discharge from the service of the United States dated at United States Post at West Point in the month of December (to the best of my recollection) 1783 — Benjamin Butto — Jacob Goodwin Jun.
Micah Eaton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss.
Be it known that on this twenty second day of September A.D. 1819 before me Daniel Flint Esquire one of the Justices assigned to hold the Peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Jacob Goodwin Jun. & made solemn Oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is just & true
(Daniel Flint Just. of the Peace)
I certify that the above Deposition is a true and correct Deposition —
(Daniel Flint Just. of the Peace)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Massachusetts ss. I Abraham Brigham Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that Daniel Flint is a Justice of the Peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth & his signature to the foregoing certificate is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this thirteenth day of September 1819.
Abraham Brigham

16:979 R Massachusetts
to Jacob Goodwin
of Reading in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Spear of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 17 mo.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of June 1820.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of May 1820 and sent to Mrs. Whitmore, Esq. Boston, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820. - 160.23 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept: 1820. 48.00 20 Mo. \frac{27.4}{30.31} $: 216.23
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Middlesex Co.

Notification sent to Hon. Digelaw Esq. 2 nd Oct. Cambridge Mass.

183. Jacob Goodwin 16.979
Sept. '20.
EW

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Jacob Goodwin resident in
Reading in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 16979 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Jacob Goodwin late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty. L. S. ”
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“ Real Estate none personal estate none. That he is by occupation a farmer is seventy seven years old cannot do any labour of consequence owing to the infirmities of age and ill health, has no wife, have lived several years upon private charity is not able to support himself without assistance from his Country that he enlisted into the United States service in Boston for three years enlisted on the first of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two into Capt Walker, company and Col Sprouts Regiment of the

Massachusetts line from Boston was marched to the high lands on the river Hudson where he continued until the Spring of 1783 thence marched to Philadelphia from thence to West Point in the State of New York where he rec d his discharge at the close of the year 1783 or the commence- ment of the year 1784 that during the above term he was transferred into Col Jackson Reg t as will appear by the original declaration by him made on the fourth day of June A D 1818 Jacob Goodwin //

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Jacob Goodwin do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. and that the annexed schedule is a true statement of my true, So help me God Jacob Goodwin
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Jacob Goodwin took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820 .
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

37014 INVALID.
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File No. 37,014
Jacob Goodwin D. Rev. 1870
Act: 18 m March 18 m
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 488
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jacob Goodwin's application to be Transferred from the State of Massachusetts to Maine —
Transferred 3 July 1822.
R.C. Dole Augusta Maine

Application for a Transfer County of Lincoln Co.
On this 24th day of June 1822. Before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Lincoln, personally appeared Jacob Grosvin who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain (name not recollecting) in the regiment commanded by Col. Sprout in the service of United States, that his name was placed on the Pension roll of the State of Massachusetts from whence he has lately removed. That he now resides in the State of Maine where he intends to remain & wishes his Pension to be made pay- able in future.
Jacob Grosvin
Sworn and subscribed to Before me, the day & year aforesaid
Wm Robinson Justice of the Peace

State of Maine. -
I the subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Kennebec - Do hereby certify and make known that William Robinson Esq. who subscribed the within & before whom the within proceedings were had, was a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Lincoln - In testimony whereof I have affixed the County and subscribed my name this 24 th day of June Anno Domini 1822.
R. C. Vose, clerk